A Hockey P.E.I. disciplinary committee has suspended five minor hockey players for 25 games for aiming racial slurs and taunts at a Black goalie from Nova Scotia during a tournament in Charlottetown.
“A lengthy suspension is required in order to reflect the seriousness of this type of conduct and to recognize the degrading nature of racial slurs,” said the report by the governing body’s discipline and ethics committee, which examined the case.
“A racial slur attacks the very core of what it means to be recognized as a person.”
Because they are minors, Hockey P.E.I. is not identifying the players being penalizes as a
